Daniel tatntek



@uitrit tetrs 'lntcltt @ffice Letters Ipmcnl. .Na 67,226. dated July 3Q, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT v1N recente erasmus ron cationic MACHINES.

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'10 ALI WHOM IT MAY QOCERN:

Beit known that I,.DANIEL TAINTVER, of the city and county of Worceste-ahd Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented ocrtain new and useful improvements in the Feedingr Apparatus of Cotton 'and Wool- Worlc'ing Machines; vandI'do hereby declareA that the followirg is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to'the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in"whieh-- Figurefl represents a side view-of sc much nt' a wool-cording machine as is necessary to illustrate my invention. i

Figure 2'represents a front view of the feeding device` shown in Iig. 1 Figure 3 represents a central section of the device shown in figs. 1 and 2, on line A B, iig. 2. A To enable those skilled in thc art to which my invent-imi belongs to make .anduse tht same, I willY proceed to describe it in detail,

In the drawings the part marked-A reprcscntsthe main frame, which supports the journal B of the cardingcylinder C, which is to be clothed with ccrdingft'eeth a, inthe usual manner. -From the front offrame A pro- Y' jects the table or stand D, which supports a fecd-apron, E, that passes around rolls b b, for the purpose of feeding the cotton or wool to be worked to the feed-rolls ce, .which in turn feed and deliver it to the cylinder C.

Such is tho-plannow i common usc, and my improvements consist in combining withsaid common l'feed-apron' .E end cardingfeylindcr C, er other doviccfo'i working cotton or wool, oftonc er more additional feed-aprons F G.

In this linstance two additional feed-aprons nro shown:- The feed-apron F passes around rolls c c e, supported in proper framework, and delivers the material f, which is placed or spread thereon, to eed-rollsc c, where it meets the material hg, which is spread or placed upon feed-apron F, and is fed with that by rolis c cto the cardi cylinder, or other working device. Feed-apron G fcedsfthcmaterial-h, placed or spread thereon, to the feedrolls a' wh ich in turn deliver the material tothe curdiug-cylindcr C.

It will be seenthat if a certain amount of cotton or wool is weighed and spread upon a given space .on feedapro`n E, vand a certain amount weighed and spreadupon feed-apron F and G in like manner, that the material upon' the diiierent aprons will. he fed to the cylinder C, upon which it will be mixed in a much more evenand perfect manner than it could be mixed by hand, while the feed will he more uniform than if .the sa'me amount were spreadupon a single apron. Again, this plan ormode of fecding 'enables cotton of different grades to he mixed, or wool of different grades to be mixed, orwoel and cotton to hemixcthI er cottonl and wool of different colorslto' he mixed, either together or separately in o. far more perfect manner than tiresome can possibly be H mixed by hand or' in any of the common modos..

Another advantage in feeding 'the materiel to the machine lfrom two or more points or places is that more material, whether wool or cotton, can be passed through the machine and properly worked in the same time, by

dividing `the 'points of contact with the main cylinder,`or other working device, than when.- the ymaterial is fed in from one apron. v A My invention is-equally applicable to cotton and wool-pickers and lappcrs as 'to wool and cotton-cards. It is immateriahtherefore,Iso furas my improvements are concerned, whether the material is fed to a cardingcylinder, Cwith card-teeth a,.er a beater-,having beater-hars ornrms j, or to Va picking-cylinder, haring' coarse beaters .maybe employed to work the material. In this last-described operation the mixing does not take place until the lapis fed topanother machine, but there aremany advantages resulting from having two or more sepnrate feed-aprons even in this cas'e. A thicker and more uniform lap can be formed'in this way than by thetuse of a single feed-apron. Themagain, di`crcnt-colored material, or materials 'of diiicrent grades, can I.he laid together in a lapin a. very even and perfect manner, and thusl greatly aid thc perfect mixing of the materials when they are subjected to that operation. By the use of three o1' more feed-aprons, all delivering the'inatcrial or'materials into one machine to be finally united in one lap, ,still greater advantages would bc obtained.

My invent-ion may be applied with good e'cct'in cases where different colors or different. grades of staples of wool or cotton are to he mixed, as they pass into a picker and then thrown out into a mass to bethereaiter fed into n carding machine, either upon double or single aprons.

picking-teeth k, o r any other device for working the material. In lien of carding-cylinders J and K pickers or My invention contributes greatly to the production of roving or threads of uniform size nd weight, in

laddition to the various other advantages 'before referred to.

ved feeding apparatus for wool and cotton-cards, pickers, und lappers, what I and desire to secure hy Letters Potent, si picker, or lapper, of two ormore feed-aprons or creepera, arranged r the material they c ar'ry to a single set or pair of Having described my impro claim therein as new and of my invention,

The combnatomwith o'carding machine, relatively to each other, .as herein described, Aab as to y.lelive l*feed-rolls. 4

' DANIEL TAINTER.

- Witnesses. "Tnos. H.'Done D. L, MILLER. 

